Glen A. Syverson v. United States

BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.

Glen A. Syverson was convicted, upon his plea of guilty, of a violation in November 1961 of 18 U.S.C. § 1010 (knowingly making a false statement in a Federal Housing Administration completion certificate for the purpose of obtaining a loan). Judge Stephenson imposed a sentence of two years but tempered this by ordering confinement for only two months, suspension of the remainder of the term, and probation for four years. Syverson now appeals from the judgment entered upon his plea of guilty.

The issues raised are (a) the statute’s inapplicability to the defendant,…